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Filed April 8, 1925 inventor Lloyd Collis,

B &i ZZ /M Attorney Patented July 5, 1927.

units!) srA'rEs LLOYD COLLIS, on NEW. Yeas. N. Y. 1

RAILWAY rel-tin.

Application filed April 8, 1925. Serial No. 21 ,472.

In passenger transportation systems of large cities, short connecting lines are required for the transfer ot'passengers between the main lines of travel, and it has been found impractical to properly utilize more than two lines of track although there may be space between the abutting buildings for four lines of track but not the requisite space for platforms for all four tracks, for

convenient access to the platforms from the main lines and for the switching of the trains, provided that equipment of the customary type is employed.

To provide an arrangement of tracks and equipment for increased capacity is the object of this invention. A further object is to provide an arrangement which will require a minimum of alteration in order to apply it to existing construction particularly in the case of underground systems or subways.

This increased capacity is obtained by providing cars of such width that two lines of track are required for their support, two of the lines of track being utilized for trains which are traveling in one direction an d the other two lines of track being utilized for trains which are traveling in the opposite direction, and provision is made for the transter of trains from the two inbound lines of track to the two outbound lines of track by means of a transfer table or a turn table since such a train cannot be run conveniently on a curved section of track or shifted over switches of the usual character.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings which forms a part of this description,

Figure 1 is a plan view of a train consisting of one sectional car and two electric locomotives in accordance with this invention, the roofs being omitted to show the interiors of the car and of the locomotive cabs.

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the train on the line IIII of Fig. 1.

3 is a vertical transverse section through a subway with equipment in accordance with this invention, one of the trains being in end elevation and a car of the other train being in section on the line ITI1II of Figs. 1 and 2.

This invention embodies a car 10 which instead of having the customary width of eight feet and nine inches has a width of twenty-one feet and four inches. covers two lines of track and affords six longitudinal rows of seats instead of the customary two rows. y

As subways are ordinarily constructed a row of columns is set between each of the lines of track, with four lines of track there being three such rows of columns and there by permitting shorter girders for thesup port of the root and of the surface roadway above. With this modification two of the rows of columns are omitted thereby necessitat-in great-er streiigth in the girders which support the surface roadway. To provide room for such girders the car is designed so as not to be as high above the track rails as the usual subway car. Such design is possible without decreasing the in terior height by dispensing with the cus- 1- tomary trucks on which the car body 18 ordinarily supported through center pins. Advantage is taken of the fact that the lines of track are absolutely straight in plan and parallel so that there is no deviation from a straight course, and the car-body is set directly on longitudinal girders 11, 11 which are formed to receive the customary ournal boxes 12, 12 for the axles of the wheels 13, 13 and support the girders through springs 14, 14:. The wheels and the portions of the girders which overlie the journal boxes project up through the floor of the car and the seats 15 15 are so placed as to overlie these projecting parts. The wheels are consequently held in permanent alignment with respect to the car-body and the axles of the wheels which support the car from one line of traclrare in transverse alignment with the axles of the wheels which support the car from the other line of track. I the car is of such length and weight as to require more than two transverse lines of? wheels the car-body is made in sections and abutting sections are hinged together at the floor level. by a transverse continuous hinge 16. This permits the several lines of wheels to properly divide the load when the car is passing a portion of the track where the grade changes. ()n account of the low car floor there is not suiiicient space for motors and electri locomotives 17, 17 are provided, each oi which may be made by placing an engineers cab on a motor-car truck of the type which is used with the regular subway cars, and spare trucks which are kept on hand for the regular cars are available for the locomotives. As the cab is wholly carried by a single truck, connection through a center pin. isnotnecessary andathisis omitted. The locomotives unlike; the cars are supported on a single line of track and may be detached and sent over the main lines to repair shops since these carry such of the equipment as is not capable of convenient inspection, repair and renewal while out on the line. The locomotives are preferably attached to the left-hand side of the forward end of the. car and at the diagonal corner or right-hand side at the rear which becomes the left-hand side when the movement is reversed. This brings the engineer next to the platform so that he can look back along the line of the platform and see that everyone is clear of the train before. starting.

I claim:

1. A railway ear in sections united. at the floor levels by hinges with transverse axes.

2.. A railway car in sections united at the floor level by transverse hinges, each section being supported on two transverse lines of wheels in permanent alignment with respect to the car-body.

3. A railway train consisting of a railway car with wheels located for support on two parallel lines of track, and at 10001110- tive which is supported wholly on one line of track.

4:. A railway train, consisting of a railway car with wheels, located for support on two parallel lines-v of track and two locomotives one. of which is at] the.v forward end and supported wholly on. one line of track and: the other of which is at the rear end and: supported wholly on. the other line. of track.

LLOYD COLLIS. 

